ness arising, not only from the production, but in the transporta-
tion of its manufactures, will largely pass through Prince Rupert.
At Ocean Falls, about 180 miles from Prince Rupert, another
very large pulp and saw mill has been constructed and will be
in operation during the coming season. This company purposes
to erect a dry kiln and planing mill at Prince Rupert where they
intend to establish large distributing yards.

Unless one is conversant with the development of the Pacific
Coast, has seen its seaports grow, particularly Victoria, Van-
couver, Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los An-
geles, to say nothing of some of the smaller ones, such as Bell-
ingham, Everett, Aberdeen, Astoria, San Pedro and San Diego,
and has watched the commerce and shipping expand year by year,
until the figures of each of the larger ones are simply astounding,
one can not fully realize the possibilities and probabilities of
Prince Rupert, which has an empire in itself tributary to it. What
were Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Los Angeles
fifteen years ago? Some of them were hardly on the map. Look
at them today—each a splendid example of what energy, brains
and money can and will do in the Golden West, and who can pre-
dict what Prince Rupert will be in the next fifteen or twenty
years, or even in five or ten years?

At the present time nearly every line of business is represented
and mention can be made of only a few of them: A wholesale
drygoods house, three wholesale groceries and a number of
wholesale commission houses have been established. All retail
lines are well represented. There are three daily newspapers,
ithe Daily News, ther journal, Sand thes Empire- ‘The
Board of Trade was organized in 1908 and has a membership of
125. Branches of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Bank of
Montreal, Union Bank of Canada, Royal Bank and Bank of Brit-
ish North America are established. There are a number of good
hotels in Prince Rupert, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ope-
rating the “Prince Rupert Inn” and “Annex” which will soon be
replaced by a magnificent hotel.

There are two clubs, namely, the “Prince Rupert Club” and
the “Pioneer Club,” both of which are established in comfortable
and commodious quarters of their own and include in their mem-
bership the leading business and professional men of the city.

The Provincial Government has made Prince Rupert its head-
quarters for the northern part of the Province, and substantial
buildings for its officers, courthouse and jail have been con-
structed. The Dominion Government is also making prepara-
tions for the erection of permanent and substantial Custom House
and Postoffice buildings. A large and commodious public school
building has just been completed where competent teachers are
in charge. ;

There is an abundant supply of fresh water from mountain
streams and lakes having a sufficient flow for a population of more
than one hundred thousand people.

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